acute anxiety theme
A character exhibits general nervousness, fear, and paranoia.
Examples
In ent3x16 "Doctor's Orders", due to a trans-dimensional disturbance Doctor Phlox becomes paranoid and suffers from various delusions and hallucinations, while the remaining Enterprise crew lies in hibernation.
33 total · 2 choice · 23 major · 8 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ent3x16 | choice | Phlox became paranoid and sufferer from delusions and hallucinations while the Enterprise crew lay in hibernation. |
| tng4x17 | choice | crew paranoid from lack of REM sleep |
| ahp7x32 | major | It was revealed that Madeline had paranoid delusions about people following her with murder in mind. |
| ent1x04 | major | Tucker dreamed up a deluded conspiracy theories under the influence of hallucinogenic compound found on planet. |
| movie: A Scanner Darkly (2006) | major | The drug-addicted, layabout housemates Arctor, Barris, and Luckman dreamed up various paranoid and conspiratorial explanations for one thing after another. |
| movie: Footprints on the Moon (1975) | major | One gathers that Alice was suffering from a paranoid delusion that the fictional scientist Blackman was trying to capture her and strand her on the Moon. Alice was generally paranoid and confused throughout the film as she tried to make sense of the strange world her mind assembled before her. |
| movie: Iron Man 3 (2013) | major | Tony was suffering from recurrent panic attacks. |
| movie: The Invisible Man (2020) | major | Cecilia was made paranoid and fearful because she was being stalked and threatened by Adrian, or perhaps his brother Tom. |
| nightgallery1x06b | major | Marius was suffering from paranoid delusions that his wife was cheating on him. |
| rbt1985e2x06 | major | Alice became increasingly fearful that her newborn was somehow trying to kill her. When she explained herself to physician, he surely took her to be suffering from a paranoid delusion. |